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Addressing Critical Care Nurse Burnout, Julie Suarez

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: Critical care nurses are at higher risk for developing burnout than nurses from other areas of clinical practice. If not addressed promptly, the problem of burnout can worsen, negatively affecting the healthcare provider, organization, and patient outcomes.

Context: Increased stress and burnout observed in the microsystem with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted consideration of ways to address the well-being of critical care nursing staff with targeted interventions that could be implemented quickly with readily available resources.

Interventions: The project aim was to reduce critical care nurse burnout scores through implementation of evidence-based strategies addressing participative management, camaraderie …

Implementing In-Situ Mini Mock Code Trainings For Medical-Surgical Nurses To Improve Nurse Readiness And Self-Confidence During A Code Blue, Allison Haley Jeong

Master's Projects and Capstones

Immediate, high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early defibrillation are important in increasing survival rates during a cardiac arrest. At the Medical Center, which is part of an integrated healthcare system in a metropolitan area of the San Francisco Bay Area, a quality improvement project was implemented to increase readiness and self-confidence of medical-surgical nurses during a code blue situation. Nurse participants completed a pre- and post-intervention survey containing questions about their self-confidence in performing different skills relevant to a code blue, scored on a 5-point Likert scale from Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (5). The intervention included an in-service …